Curtailing Jobs for the Young and the Poor

A minimum wage hike will only help the Democrat union buddies whose constituents have incomes keyed to the minimum wage.

Minimum wage in large cities is already over the proposed national minimum wage, and raising the price of employment in areas that have not exceeded it will simply drive more poor people into the unemployment line.

There really is very little debate about this among economists. The empirical evidence is also pretty clear. Increasing the minimum wage increases unemployment among the young and the poor and the disabled. As recently as a few years ago this was a "settled issue," even in the minds of the editorial board of the "New York Times," which argued strongly against the minimum wage.